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AUGUST 1, 2019

In its announcement , SWIFT noted that this standardization will be especially impactful for high-value corporate payments within the correspondent banking sphere. Adoption of ISO 20022 will continue the transformation of correspondent banking already ongoing,” SWIFT said in its Wednesday (July 31) announcement.

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DECEMBER 4, 2017

FinTech innovators are finally paying attention to the B2B sphere, and much of that focus has landed on the cross-border payments space — a notoriously clunky, expensive and opaque burden for many business payers. Traditional banks are often at the center of that global B2B payments friction.

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MAY 24, 2017

With lack of visibility into the correspondent banking system a top challenge for B2B payments, SWIFT is rolling out a way for payers to track their cross-border payments in real time. The company announced Tuesday (May 23) that its Tracker is now available to help businesses track global payments as they occur.

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APRIL 5, 2016

These profits are coming from the 3–5 percent foreign exchange fees that banks can charge for conducting a cross-border transfer, often through the costs that get tacked on as a payment moves between corresponding banks. To India, And Beyond .

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FEBRUARY 20, 2018

“Although competition and innovations such as mobile or eBanking have made these payments more convenient, the bulk of clearing and settlement for cross-border payments still goes through traditional correspondent banks, which struggle to handle the higher-volume, lower-value retail payments,” the CPMI noted in its report.

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APRIL 11, 2016

For instance, some startups operating in the blockchain sphere are looking at how to disrupt corresponding banking, the strategy used by FIs to complete cross-border transactions.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

As Frere pointed out, in many cases, the sender of funds doesn’t know how much it will cost them to convert their renminbi to dollars once they leave the bank. They typically are also unaware of all the corresponding banking fees that are assessed on the way from their local bank to MIT.

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OCTOBER 22, 2019

Recipients are often allowed to collect funds within minutes of payers initiating transactions, but the funds take longer to actually move between money transfer operators (MTOs). Remittances from Filipinos totaled $2.8 Consumers are not spared from the space’s frictions, either.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Despite the efforts of regulators, correspondent banking relationships continue to decline, according to the G20’s Financial Stability Board in a Reuters report late last week. percent drop in correspondent banking last year. percent drop in correspondent banking last year.

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DECEMBER 14, 2018

Throughout the year, that prediction has manifested into reality, as more traditional financial institutions (FIs) turn toward FinTech innovators to address the biggest pain points of the legacy correspondent banking system. “The nature and direction of these changes, however, [remain] unclear in many cases.” ”

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

23) that its gpi service can now be integrated into domestic real-time payment systems, enabling banks to wield gpi for real-time cross-border payments. Chase’s use of blockchain to facilitate cross-border transactions is also a reflection of the delicate balance between bank-FinTech collaboration and competition.

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